MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators have found what could be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising safety concerns for other bridges around ...
Wayne County will replace Apple Creek’s Bank Street bridge with a wider, safer box‑beam design featuring bike lanes and ...
Of the 756 American bridges that share a design with the collapsed Minnesota span, almost a quarter stand in Ohio. They're not flashy, just roads atop trusses, a mishmash of connected steel sticks ...
OLYMPIA, WA - The Washington State Department of Transportation is considering a program to raise the clearance height of some steel truss bridges built from the late 1940's to the early 1960's. There ...
PORTLAND -- The governors of Oregon and Washington announced plans Monday for a replacement for the aging Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River they said will keep the project on schedule and ...
Papers documenting various aspects of the development, implementation and research value of the Bollman truss bridge design. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, articles and clippings ...
Did it crack when it was lifted into place? Was it a snapping steel support that did it in? Or was it a fatally flawed design from the start? And what was the doomed construction crew member doing ...
Town Bridge, Canton CT By Sphilbrick - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26395077 The Town Bridge in Canton, Connecticut, was ...
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on Tuesday after a container ship smashed into it, plunging cars into the water. It is a major traffic and transportation hub for the U.S. East Coast and ...
Those are the words used last week by one of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigators, engineer Daniel S. Walsh, in seeking the “why” behind the ...
PERRY COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - A historic truss bridge in Perry County is set to be replaced and put up for preservation. The bridge was built in 1942 along Mississippi Highway 42, between Richton and ...